[sword-devel] SWIG for Sword!

[Daniel Glassey]

great work :) Does it require swig 1.3.13? it doesn't work with 1.3.11

Regards,
Daniel

On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 1:35 am, you wrote:
> Thank you for your kind words!
>
> Now I extended the interface so you can write all sorts of modules
> (RawText, zText, RawLD, RawLD4, zLD, RawCom, RawGenBook etc.)! I think this
> is usefuil for module creation.
>
> Is here some Automake expert? I need some help with the Makefile so it
> creates a shared lib from the SWIG file. I'd be glad for some help!
>
> Joachim
>
> > Wow,
> > 	Even I can almost understand that Perl code!  Nice work.
> >
> > 	-Troy.
> >
> > Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Some time ago I read in the TWiki of Sword, that SWIG interface files
> > > for Sword would be cool. I never heard about SWIG, but I decided to try
> > > creating the necessary interface files after I read what SWIG is.
> > >
> > > Now I have a basic set working. I added the files to bindings/swig/.
> > > The Makefile is not yet working properly with the automake system, but
> > > I hope I can fix this soon. At the moment it's a default Makefile made
> > > on my system, a perl module is created.
> > > The interface files have to be refined in future, but they're working
> > > for the basic things.
> > >
> > > For the curious: With the Swig interface files I can write the
> > > following in perl:
> > > --------------
> > > $localemgr = sword::LocaleMgr::systemLocaleMgr();
> > > $localemgr->setDefaultLocaleName("de");
> > >
> > > $mgr = new sword::SWMgr();
> > > $module = $mgr->module("WEB");
> > > print "Description of module ", $module->Name(), ": \n\t",
> > > $module->Description(), "\n";
> > >
> > > $key = new sword::VerseKey("Matthew 3:16");
> > > $key->setPersist(1);
> > > $module->SetKey($key);
> > >
> > > for ($i = 0; $i < 15; $i++) {
> > >   print "(", $module->KeyText() ,")\t", $module->StripText(), "\n";
> > >   $key->next();
> > > }
> > >
> > > $module->write("This is a test entry! This tests the write abilities of
> > > the Sword Perl classes");
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > As you can see the API is almost like Sword's C++ API, but operators
> > > are not supported. I renamed them (e.g. SWModule::operator << to
> > > SWModule::write).
> > >
> > > The last call writes into the module! I hope you find the interface
> > > files useful! I think we can even create bindings to Java, Phyton, Ruby
> > > etc. using SWIG, although I have not yet tried this.
> > >
> > > Joachim